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Re: PHONO OP

UFODNAHELIX — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:11:32 -0000

It's all Max Richter today, folks, and probably more of the like through the dark days of December.

Re: the notes - Toro Y Moi /// “Minors” /// Causers Of This Is...

UFODNAHELIX — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:50:21 -0000

He's got the moves and, my god, the voice (if Slick Rick could croon) to make his live performances so much more than another spectacle of sample-triggering. Kid can dance and sing. Cudi's sunk.

Re: the notes - As an engineer, the only people I’m concerned...

UFODNAHELIX — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:45:03 -0000

There's so much to gnaw on in this interview. Might have to post something on if I can gather the wherewithal.

Re: the notes - Girls /// “Morning Light” /// Album How is it...

UFODNAHELIX — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:21:27 -0000

I'm dating myself (to exactly *now*) with this comment, but I have to say, I luurve the album art on this record. It's just so goddamn good-looking.

Re: Adventures in block quotes.

UFODNAHELIX — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:12:51 -0000

My problem with Adorno's logic in this essay is not the critique of the commonsense conception of music as language. In fact, I'd go further and say that Longfellow's famous pronouncement that music is the universal language is decisively countered by Benjamin's critique of the idea of "language in general." What troubles me here is that, by way of criticizing lingualization, as it were, he describes music as the attempt to make gestures "eternal." The idea that music strives for eternity puts it dangerously close to the old Platonist idea of a "universal" of any kind (language, gesture, etc). My own position is that Platonist concepts stand in direct and irreconcilable opposition to a musical act or "gesture." I think that your point about signification and context might speak to that. If the music-language relationship is tight, it's possible to attribute that to "social fact" ("the more people think music has meaning, the more [it has meaning]").

Re: Hmm. New Sufjan Stevens Album Art: Discuss.

UFODNAHELIX — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:45:34 -0000

Hm.
I've decided that I like it. I like it a lot.

Re: the rich girls are weeping take notes

UFODNAHELIX — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:34:02 -0000

NB: I reblogged this on Phono Op! It won't show up in your dashboard as an official reblog, though, because I edited it into my own commentary about Les & Mary. Wonderful video to remember LP by, and thanks for posting it!

Keep peeling onions before the eyes of the privileged,
KP

Re: PHONO OP

UFODNAHELIX — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:26:36 -0000

Blender belongs to the same publishing company as Maxim (first it was Dennis Publishing, then Alpha), which is why it had that similar boob-centric imagery/cock-centric writing combination to it. I'm not sure whether its online incarnation is quite the same---it'll be interesting to see! This writeup was pretty informative on all that: http://tinyurl.com/nhgyh3

Meanwhile, PASTE magazine continues to survive, in contrast, because of its devoted readership (see the USA Today article about it here: http://tinyurl.com/kp6s7n), proving that, yes, music magazines still can be the home to and genesis of arts-based communities. I like Paste's slogan, which I believe is something like, "Signs of Life in Music and Culture."

Re: PHONO OP

UFODNAHELIX — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:37:15 -0000

Photo *EXTRA-CREDIT*, LRA!

Re: yvynyl

UFODNAHELIX — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:04:53 -0000

Wayne Coyne?! You look . . . different.

Re: Presenting the Western Canon's Great & Hitherto Unknown Rap Lyrics

UFODNAHELIX — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:49:48 -0000

Shoutout to Nick "Li'l Big Pun" Thorburn

Re: the notes - My most eagerly anticipated.

UFODNAHELIX — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:34:13 -0000

Gorgeous album art.